Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Shusterman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $293k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Shusterman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $290k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $125k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $112k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $132k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $157k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $122k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $100k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $74k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh | $185,950 | 7 | 1% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $157,250 | 7 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Inc | $119,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gratz College | $114,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Responsible Preservation Inc | $112,600 | 4 | 40% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $71,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom in Broomall | $54,325 | 7 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $22,700 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Society for Aesthetics | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shusterman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Shusterman Foundation
- How much does Shusterman Foundation give?
- Shusterman Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $292,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Shusterman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (16%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Shusterman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh ($186k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($157k), American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Inc ($119k).
- Does Shusterman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shusterman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shusterman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Shusterman Foundation based?
- Shusterman Foundation is based in PA.
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